University of Bern

My research sits at the intersection of sustainability, justice and the politics of knowledge. More than any single method, it is driven by a set of questions: whose knowledge counts, who decides how land and resources are used, and what a fair transition actually demands.

For some fifteen years I have worked on territories under tension - from Laos and Myanmar to the Caribbean, the Sahel and the drylands of Northern Kenya. Across these contexts I draw on transdisciplinary and participatory approaches - living labs, arts-based methods, participatory mapping and spatial data - but always in service of a deeper concern: surfacing the knowledge, voices and claims that dominant systems tend to overlook.

My main anchor today is in Senegal (Petite Côte and Casamance), around food systems and the agroecological transition. What interests me is less the data than the epistemologies at play - how farmers' knowledge, science and innovation meet or collide - and what environmental justice and sustainability mean in practice. This also frames my co-leadership of the Sustainable Land Systems impact area at CDE, which connects land use, justice and sustainability across the Global South.